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U-235

U-235 is the abbreviation of uranium-235.

Meaning of uranium-235

Noun

uranium-235 (uncountable)

  1. A fissile isotope of uranium, used for energy generation and in atomic weapons, containing 143 neutrons. It has a half-life of 7.038×10⁸ years; it decays into thorium-231 and ultimately lead.
    • The Zaporizhzhia plant provided about a fifth of Ukraine’s electricity before Russia’s invasion, and has been forced to operate on backup generators a number of times. It has six Soviet-designed water-cooled and water-moderated reactors containing uranium-235.2022 November 21, Lorenzo Tondo, Peter Beaumont, “Ukraine to start evacuations in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions as winter sets in”, in The Guardian

Origin of U-235

From U (“the chemical symbol for uranium”).

Questions about U-235

What is U-235 the abbreviation of?
U-235 is the abbreviation of uranium-235.

Words near U-235 in the dictionary

  1. U'khand
  2. u'll
  3. u're
  4. u's
  5. U'wa
  6. U-235
  7. U-47700
  8. U-barrel
  9. U-barrels
  10. U-bend
  11. U-bends

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